Monthly Archives: April 2017

The Gateway Sun is suspending its coverage of the Gateway Services Community Development District. This action is to protest both the decision of district staff several months ago to remove all public documents from the GSCDD website with (as yet) no announced intention to...

Stand up and shooooouuuuuuuuuut! This weekend is the Fort Rock Festival at jetBlue Park in Gateway. And while the fictional bad Steel Dragon will not be performing, actual rock stars Def Leppard (April 29) and Soundgarden (April 30) will be. The two-day festival should...

There are many misconceptions about the street parking ban in the Stoneybrook community. Let’s answer them all one by one. ———————————————– Myth: Stoneybrook’s roads are too narrow for street parking! Truth: Stoneybrook’s roads are exactly average for Lee County and measure 20 feet wide....

A source with direct knowledge of the parking situation in Stoneybrook has told the Gateway Sun that Alert Protective Services have been ordered to stop enforcing the community’s controversial street parking ban. Alert is the company that has been contracted by the Home Owner’s Association...

Order has been restored in the site selection process for the Lee County School District’s next high school. The District Advisory Council met yesterday to discuss whether to build the new school in the Gateway or Alva community. After listening to over a dozen...

Sometime tomorrow I should be told by Gateway’s lawyer Anthony Pires that I’m either extremely clever, or that I’ll be needing to issue a prompt and strongly-worded retraction and apology about street parking in one Gateway community. But as we await an explanation as...

The Gateway Services Community Development District has followed the instructions of Supervisor Ed Tinkle and Supervisor Doug Banks and restored all district meeting minutes dating back to the CDD’s inception in 1986. GSCDD staff made the decision to remove all documents from the district’s...

Wow. Time flies. Sushi restaurant Rock’n Sushi will celebrate their third anniversary of being in business this Friday! The restaurant officially opened on April 21, 2014. Located at 11940 Fairway Lakes Drive in the Fairway Lakes Office Park in Gateway, Rock’n Sushi also features...

There’s a misconception that the debate about whether to place the high school in Gateway or Alva is pitting one entire town against another. A majority – actually, it would more accurately be described as a supermajority — of Gateway residents want the high...

This Thursday we’re going to find out how just how far Gateway’s lawyer Anthony Pires is willing to go to keep GSCDD Chairman Margaret Fineberg happy. Recently the Gateway Sun demonstrated that the initial basis for the Stoneybrook street parking ban was dubious. After...